Posts Tagged ‘ Last September ’

Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

January 9, 2012
Single-digit inflation target feasible, says ADB exec 

    Street vendors ply their goods in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. The Asian Development Bank has lowered Vietnam’s economic growth forecast in 2012 to 6.3 percent from 6.5 percent forecast last September. With the world economy remaining mired in difficulty, the Asian Development Bank forecasts a difficult year ahead for Vietnam. However, it [...]

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Call of the sea 

January 8, 2011
Call of the sea 

  A fisherman has lost everything to repeated illegal Chinese harassment and detainment, but says fishing in Vietnamese waters is his livelihood and his birthright Fisherman Mai Phung Luu looks at the sea in the central province of Quang Ngai. Luu is eager to go out to sea again and fish in Vietnamese territorial waters [...]

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Police officer hauled up in slander trial

July 16, 2009
Police officer hauled up in slander trial

(From right) Duong Tien, DInh Cong Sat and Nguyen Phi Duy Linh at a trial last September The trial of an ex-official of the Ministry of Public Security charged with involvement in a defamation campaign against top Da Nang City officials several years ago is slated to begin next Monday. Major-General Tran Van Thanh, former [...]

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Da Nang threatens to reclaim more land from delayed projects

June 12, 2009
Da Nang threatens to reclaim more land from delayed projects

Da Nang construction project owners delaying their work will have their land confiscated, the People’s Committee in the central city has warned. The downtown Da Nang site where the Viendong Meridian Towers were scheduled to be built last September.VietNamNet Bridge – Da Nang construction project owners delaying their work will have their land confiscated, the [...]

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Da Nang threatens to reclaim more land from delayed projects

June 12, 2009
Da Nang threatens to reclaim more land from delayed projects

The downtown Da Nang site where the Viendong Meridian Towers were scheduled to be built last September Da Nang construction project owners delaying their work will have their land confiscated, the People’s Committee in the central city has warned. The Da Nang City People’s Committee has already taken back 400 hectares of land at the [...]

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After 15 years, fish return to Thi Vai River

March 6, 2009
After 15 years, fish return to Thi Vai River

A local is fishing again in the Thi Vai River behind the Vedan Vietnam plant in Dong Nai Province’s Phuoc Thai Commune, 15 years after Vedan turned the river into a dead zone The inhabitants of Dong Nai Province have started swimming and fishing in the Thi Vai River again, 15 years after a Vedan [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...